Teaching & Learning
Proficiency rates on Pennsylvania’s statewide assessments in 2022 remain below pre-pandemic levels, especially in math, but there is evidence that student learning has begun to recover.
From unfinished learning to missing students and lost earnings, these charts help explain the pandemic's long-term impact.
In this research brief, we provide descriptive data on the effect of the pandemic on student absences, course grades, and grade retention in the 2020-21 school year. We also examine how these effects vary across grade levels, at different points of the absence and course grade distribution, and for student subgroups. We find that: (1) On average, students in 2020–21 missed more days of school, performed worse in their courses, and were more likely to be retained in grade in the following year as compared to pre-pandemic peers.
In this guide, CGCS focuses on the instructional challenges posed by school closures. In particular, it presents district curriculum leaders and staff with an instructional framework for addressing unfinished learning and learning losses.
Policymakers have renewed calls for expanding instructional time in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This study from the Annenberg Institute at Brown University suggests schools might also recover substantial lost learning time within the existing school day.
How much did students’ grades in spring 2020 and spring 2021 differ from grades during pre-pandemic years? The UChicago Consortium used course grades data for students in grades 4-12 in Chicago Public Schools to find out.
This study aimed to explore the COVID-19 impact on the reading achievement growth of Grade 3-5 students in a large urban school district.
According to panel experts, tutoring will be the most important factor in helping students. School districts throughout California are using their Covid relief funds to hire tutors to help students regain ground lost during remote learning.
In order to understand state and local policymakers’ strategies for bolstering teaching resources in the wake of the pandemic, FutureEd analyzed the Covid-relief spending plans of 5,000 school districts and charter organizations representing 74 percent of the nation’s public-school students.